I wonder if part of what’s at work here isn’t the audience speaking loudly and clearly “DO NOT WANT” to that entire line of reasoning. MS dropped it, but dropping it isn’t going to undo the fact that you proposed it, and that enough people at your company thought it was a good idea in the first place that they might try it (or something like it) again. Your initial audience for a next-gen console are hardcore gamers who could totally use that as a reason not to purchase a console.
If that is a big part of what’s at work, Titanfall isn’t going to fix it. Only a bold, clear, unambiguous change in corporate direction would fix it.
Of course, if most of that failure is just a lack of good games (which the PS4 ALSO suffers from), Titanfall might nip that in the bud. But given that neither console has really awesome games, and that arguably the Wii U’s game line up for 2014 looks better than any of theirs, I’m inclined to think that there’s something else in the mix here other than awesome games.
Not that an awesome game would hurt.
